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Pascal Amoyel

PIANO

Strauss, Reger

Sonata for cello and piano

Harmonia Mundi, 2013

Emmanuelle Bertrand, cello
Pascal Amoyel, piano

Two youthful miracles!
Fate reserved quite extraordinary treatment for these two sonatas for cello and piano, two first attempts at the genre that turned out to be masterstrokes – and were both disowned much later by their respective composers. Admittedly, these two youthful sonatas, whose first performances are separated by an interval of twenty-three years, both kept one eye on Brahms and Mendelssohn; but if that fact explains the severity with which Reger and Strauss judged them in retrospect, it should not be allowed to obliterate their remarkable accomplishment, a creativity and sense of balance that are quite simply miraculous. They are now among the undisputed peaks of the repertoire, as are the two lovely Romances which are closely linked with them.

STRAUSS, Richard (1864-1949)
Romance AV 75 in F Major
Sonata for cello and piano in F Major op.6

REGER, Max (1873-1916)
Sonata for cello and piano in g minor op.28
Petite Romance in D Major op.79e.2

Press

Diapason, 2005

Cet album vient confirmer la maturité d'un duo soucieux d'abandonner les sentiers battus

01.05

Land of the rising sun

Pascal Amoyel is once again the guest of La Folle Journée du Japon, this time with his show Le jour…

Pascal Amoyel is once again the guest of La Folle Journée du Japon, this time with his show Le jour où j'ai rencontré Franz Liszt for 2 performances this week in Tokyo:
It is often said that the life of Franz Liszt is like a novel... That's probably a far cry from his extraordinary destiny! He was history's first great "star", a virtuoso adored throughout Europe, the inventor of the recital, a seducer of a thousand conquests and a fervent believer, but he was also the most visionary composer of his time, still largely unknown today. At the height of his fame, at the age of 35, he surprised the world with a decision that turned his life upside down...

With music by BACH, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, SCHUMANN, LISZT etc., Pascal Amoyel invites us to meet "his" Franz Liszt, aged 7 at the time, living in a small town in Hungary, with the wonder of a child's eyes... The audience travels alongside them in a unique show combining music, theater and... magic. A musical creation of rare intensity!

Click here to view the show teaser.